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Bee

1951

Leonard Baskin

Associated Names

Leonard Baskin

Artist, American, 1922 - 2000

In the center of a mainly white canvas is a detailed black illustration of a wasp. The wasp is the largest and only object in the image and is placed slightly towards the right side of the canvas. The color palette is predominantly black and white.

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Artwork overview

Medium

linocut in black on wove paper
Credit Line

Gift of Jay Finkel
Dimensions

image (irregular): 3.18 × 5.08 cm (1 1/4 × 2 in.)
sheet: 22.86 × 22.86 cm (9 × 9 in.)
Accession Number

2013.121.49
Catalogue Raisonné

Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, no. 99

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jay Finkel, Washington, DC; acquired 2013 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Finkel, Jay

Bibliography

1984

Fern, Alan, and Judith O'Sullivan. The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1948-1983. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1984, no. 99.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Baskin

Wikidata ID

Q77005496

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